Promoting sustainability through behavior change: A review Aykut Coskun, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey John Zimmerman, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Cigdem Erbug, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Dumlupinar Bulv. Universiteler Mah. No: 1, 06800, Ankara, Turkey Over the last decade, the design research community has become increasingly interested in promoting more sustainable behaviors through the design of new products and services. We conducted a literature review to help advance this growing research area. The review characterizes the current state by identifying conceptual studies that proposed strategies, frameworks, toolkits, and guidelines for behavior change. It also documents empirical studies that investigate opportunities for behavior change by proposing novel artifacts that promote sustainable behaviors and evaluations of these artifacts through field studies. Our review identifies gaps including a lack of detail on how designers select target behaviors, users, and opportunities; research on topics other than electricity consumption and the domestic context; research that integrates behavior change strategies other than feedback; and longitudinal evaluations that demonstrate a lasting behavior change. Based on these gaps, we offer some priorities for future research. Ó 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: design research, user behavior, design for behavior change T he design of new products meant to change people’s behavior has become an important topic in design research and practice. Industry increasingly asks design teams to create new things that motivate various behaviors such as increasing exercise, adopting a healthier diet, reducing resource consumption, choosing environmentally friendly transpor- tation, and even acting more fiscally responsible. Today, few designers really know how to do this. While almost every industrial design program teaches students to design for manufacture, few programs instill an equal level of competence when it comes to designing for behavior change. Design researchers have increasingly investigated this new challenge. Within the last decade, they began to develop methods, tools, and techniques Corresponding author: Aykut Coskun aykutcoskun@ku.edu. tr www.elsevier.com/locate/destud 0142-694X Design Studies -- (2015) --e-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2015.08.008 1 Ó 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Please cite this article in press as: Coskun, A., et al., Promoting sustainability through behavior change: A review, Design Studies (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2015.08.008